On this day — 8 May
276 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Victor Allison
- Sergeant Peter Robert Lutley
- Leading Aircraftman Victor Charles Edward Neirynck
- Sergeant Eric Oliver Ferdinand Schmid
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Bowler
- Flight Sergeant Harold Brattan
- Lieutenant Campbell
- Wing Commander Arnold Louis Christian
- Sergeant Charles Cedric Cox
- Flight Sergeant Jack Lester George Creed
- Sergeant Frederick Agnew Vance Mansfield Drummond
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Thomas Reginald Fernyhough
- Sergeant John Michael Fulford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Lessels Gould
- Flight Sergeant Harold Frederick Hancock
- Sergeant Leonard Frank Harris
- Sergeant Wray William Heywood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Jackson
- Corporal Mark Jordan
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Barclay Montgomerie
- Aircraftman 1st Class John William Henry Pateman
- Corporal Frank Leslie Pennock
- Sergeant John Robert Perkins
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Port
- Sergeant Peter Verrall Read
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Rennardson
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Henry Savage
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Hilson Squire
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Taverner
- Air Sergeant Van Der Vyver
- Sergeant George Wade
- Group Captain Cyril Charles Walker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Jack Wareham
1942
- Sergeant Kenneth George Armstrong
- Warrant Officer Louis Clifford Ashford
- Sergeant Wilfred Benson
- Flight Sergeant Frank William Bodfish
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Herbert Bolus
- Sergeant Matthew Callaghan
- Sergeant Lionel Leslie Cartwright
- Leading Aircraftman Denis Clark
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Joseph Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Coetzee
- Sergeant Ernest Almon (jnr.) Coleman
- Sergeant John Collie
- Corporal Stanley Harold Cook
- Leading Aircraftman Robert John Cranston
- Flight Sergeant Harold Banford Crouse
- Flight Sergeant Jack Clarence Davis
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Drennan
- Sergeant Kenneth Evans
- Sergeant Leonard Edward Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Glen Dean Faris
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Farrugia-gay
- Sergeant Ian McNaughton Fergusson
- Sergeant Charles Alexander Furbank
- Pilot Officer Peter Gardiner
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Kenneth Gilbert
- Sergeant Reginald Allan Goodhew
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Abernethy Harris
- Sergeant Roland Holman
- Lieutenant Joseph A. Huber
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Richard Douglas Hunt
- Corporal Edward Hector Hutchinson
- Warrant Officer Peter Owen Jones
- Sergeant Rowland Henry Jones
- Warrant Officer Neville Percy John Lamb
- Corporal Frank Harold Lockwood
- Pilot Officer Mado Henry Donald Macdonald
- Sergeant William Robertson Macleod
- Lieutenant Thomas D. Mainprize
- Sergeant Emory Andrew Mason
- Leading Aircraftman John Albert McCarty
- Sergeant William Albert McDonnell
- Leading Aircraftman John Albert McKenzie
- Sergeant Joseph Henry Miller
- Sergeant Allan Stott Morrow
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Herbert O'Bryan
- Sergeant John Oliver
- Corporal Sidney Leonard Parmenter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh Paton
- Pilot Officer Dennis Percival
- Leading Aircraftman John Paul Planche
- Pilot Officer Cornelius James Porter
- Sergeant Maurice Prescott
- Flight Sergeant George Richard
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Rigby Richardson
- Sergeant Hermann Heinrich Julius Rohrlach
- Sergeant William John Rowe
- Flight Sergeant Ryan
- Sergeant Eric George Seaward
- Flight Sergeant Charles Harry Ship
- Flight Sergeant Marcel Stanley Sinclair
- Pilot Officer John Adam Sligo
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Smith
- Sergeant Roy Smith
- Sergeant Hugh Russell Strain
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Herbert Harold Thirkell
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Taylor Thompson
- Sergeant Alexander Scouler Urquhart
- Sergeant Maurice Howard Vincent
- Sergeant Robert Reid Waterston
- Sergeant Leonard Raymond Webster
- Sergeant Graham Colin Williams
- Sergeant Willoughby Lloyd Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Russell Wintrell
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles John Wyllie
1943
- Warrant Officer Class II Charles Needham Allan
- Sergeant Andrew Armstrong
- Sergeant Fred Barber
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles John Brimley
- Pilot Officer Roland Adelore Cossette
- Corporal Frederick Herbert Davies
- Pilot Officer Frederick Albert Duquette
- Sergeant Edward Arthur Evans
- Pilot Officer Donald Weston Frazee
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Aubrey Green
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Harper
- Flight Sergeant James Ernest Arthur Huschmann
- Flight Sergeant Arthur William Johnson
- Corporal Michael Maley
- Sergeant Charles Andrew Mangion
- Leading Aircraftman Lee Khaim Marlowe
- Pilot Officer Gordon Ormonde McKay
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Arthur Moore
- Sergeant Donald Richardson
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Gerald Sewell
- Sergeant John Gilbert Steele
- Sergeant Bennie Stromberg
- Sergeant Edwin John Stuart
- Pilot Officer Humphrey Svendsen
- Sergeant William Anderson Tait
- Warrant Officer George Henry Taylor
- Sergeant Alfred Thorn
- Sergeant John Oliver Young
1944
- Flying Officer Elmer Oscar Aaron
- Sergeant Ernest James Adams
- Pilot Officer Richard Colton Alexander
- Sergeant Dennis Geoffrey Allen
- Pilot Officer Arthur Leslie Anderson
- Flying Officer James Alexander Armour
- Sergeant Aubrey Louis Arthur Ash-smith
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Austin
- Flight Lieutenant Neil Thomson Badger
- Pilot Officer Cyril Alfred Bartlett
- Wing Commander Roderick Keith Faulkner Bell-irving
- Sergeant Thomas Evan Edward Benjamin
- Flying Officer Percy Raymond Billingsley
- Flight Sergeant Peter Bissett
- Sergeant Ronald Boffey
- Sergeant Jack Booth
- Flying Officer Donald Brown
- Flying Officer James Brown
- Sergeant Kenneth William Brown
- Flying Officer Alexander Frederick Bryce
- Pilot Officer George Cable
- Sergeant Leslie John Carey
- Flying Officer John Hart Caselberg
- Flying Officer Alan Francis Crebbin
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Albert Crouch-baker
- Flight Sergeant William Currie
- Pilot Officer Joseph Davis
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Deans
- Wing Commander Jean Paul Joseph Desloges
- Warrant Officer Class I Leslie Frederick Dutton
- Sergeant Douglas Archibald Eld
- Flight Lieutenant Sidney Godfrey Falconer
- Flying Officer Leonard Marvin Falkins
- Flying Officer Colin Leo Malcolm Forsyth
- Sergeant Robert Leslie Fowls
- Sergeant Patrick Friel
- Flight Sergeant Edward Charles Fry
- Squadron Leader Frederick Edgar Fuller
- Sergeant Albert James (bert) Gill
- Flying Officer Alfred Greenwood
- Flight Sergeant Owen Glyndwr Griffiths
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Grisenthwaite
- Flying Officer James Guile
- Leading Aircraftman William Stanley Hall
- Flying Officer Sydney James Hanney
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Arthur Head
- Warrant Officer John Frederick Hewson
- Flight Sergeant John Hill
- Pilot Officer Aldrene Gail Holke
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Desmond Holland
- Flying Officer George Aubrey James Horton
- Squadron Leader Colin Havard Hunter
- Sergeant Robert Newton Johnson
- Sergeant Donald Jones
- Flying Officer Philip Chambers Jones
- Pilot Officer Thomas George Jones
- Sergeant William Richard Kennedy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Alexander Killman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Arthur Knowles
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Bennison Lister
- Sergeant Ernest Long
- Warrant Officer Robert William Long
- Flying Officer Norman Albert Loranger
- Flight Sergeant Robert Antoine Frederick Loretan
- Sergeant Angus Alexander Macpherson
- Flight Lieutenant Clive Hugh Masters
- Lieutenant McGee
- Flying Officer Bernard Pierce McGonagle
- Pilot Officer Ibar Francis Hugh McKenna
- Sergeant Benjamin McLeod
- Flight Lieutenant Harcourt Hunter McMullan
- Pilot Officer George Robert Miles
- Sergeant Ronald Bertram Mitchell
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Murphy
- Flying Officer Kevin James Murphy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest Gordon Nicholson
- Sergeant Roy Padgett
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Roger Patti
- Flying Officer Ernest Richard (dickie) Penman
- Flight Sergeant James Alexander Phillips
- Flying Officer Victor Charles Phipps
- Flight Sergeant Francis James Pinch
- Flying Officer Cyril Keith Plunkett
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Pope
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Gordon Pratt
- Sergeant Reginald Charles Reid
- Pilot Officer Joseph Charles Roach
- Sergeant John Andrew Roberts
- Pilot Officer Eric Roy Baldock Robertson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Gordon Robinson
- Pilot Officer Harold Kenty Rose
- Sergeant Alexander Francis Rowlands
- Sergeant Edward William Rushton
- Wing Commander William McFarlane Russell
- Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Salmon
- Lieutenant Schuurman
- Flight Sergeant Percy Alfred Scott
- Sergeant Malcolm Charles Sewell
- Flying Officer Eric Lewis Sharp
- Sergeant Brian Gilbert Shearer
- Sergeant Reginald Shipley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Shoesmith
- Flying Officer Norman Simister
- Corporal Harold Smerdon
- Sergeant Albert Smith
- Sergeant Leslie Leonard John Smith
- Flying Officer Leslie Frank Stannard
- Sergeant Cecil Stephenson
- Flying Officer Louis David Steylaerts
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ford Stubelt
- Sergeant Bernard Stynes
- Sergeant Eric George Swallow
- Flying Officer Archie Campbell Swan
- Flying Officer William Joseph Tay
- Sergeant Alan Armitage Taylor
- Flying Officer Percy Keith Turnor
- Flight Sergeant Frank Thomas Tyler
- Flying Officer George Duncan Van Patter
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil Walker
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Rowe Warren
- Sergeant Albert Ormond Wedin
- Sergeant Brian Douglas West
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Percy Whalley
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth John White
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Wallace Williams
- Sergeant Raymond George Williams
- Flying Officer Gordon Keith Willis
- Flight Sergeant John Burns Winter
- Sergeant John Harold Woodcock
- Flight Sergeant George William Woodd
- Flight Sergeant Charles Wray
1945
- Corporal John Rutherford Barkway
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert John Bonniface
- Air Mechanic Brown
- Sergeant Douglas Haigh Howland
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon McMillan
- Sergeant William Leslie Stott
- Corporal Clarence John Tully